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I might be able to make it that week. If I'm not on the golf course that is. I've had my car with Halleys twice now, once for the 1000 mile service, which was done, but a seat problem wasn't fixed, so that really put me off them. But then I happened to be in Milngavie one day, went to the garage to buy the single din pocket for my audio install and chanced getting someone to look at my seat. 20 minutes later I was driving off with a cleaned car and my drivers seat better than new. So they fully redeemed themselves and will in future be getting all my business. PPP hopefully . I dealt with Harvey almost a year ago when I was first looking at an Impreza and he was a sound bloke. I couldn't agree to anything then due to working short term contracts, and when I finally bought my car in December I couldn't stretch to a full UK car so went down the import route. Does that make me evil in their book?

I was 17 and I got a new Civic hatchback. It was an "illusion" special edition, so it was cheap. It came in supersonic blue, which when clean on a sunny day looked viper-blue, but it was purple any other day of the year. Fantastic little car. The 1.4 didn't really put out a lot of power, but you sat so low, and it was a wide car so handled quite nicely. This was before F+F, so all the Chavs didn't know how easy it was to mod a civic. I didn't to anything other than stereo and replacing the illusion sticker on the boot with a type-r badge, and some mugen ones over the front arches. My brother got it after me and he loved it too. I can't remember the insurance.

The thing is, even if your road angel had picked it up you'd still have got done. Laser detetion is pretty ropey unless you have something mounted front and rear. They use narrow band beams that aim at your plate generally. So if your road angel's laser unit is on the windscreen then they probably wouldn't have hit it, or if they were behind you it would need to have come the whole way through the car and hit it from the other side. The Impreza's cabin is quite tightly packed, and of course, if you get on the brakes and pitch forward it makes it even harder to hit. Which is why if you really want laser protection you need to mount sensors.

I finished a full 24 hours of Le Mans in the 24 hours of Le Mans game on the dreamcast. I was 20 laps up on the second place car with an hour left to go, so I just parked up for half an hour and did something else. Of course I didn't finish it in one sitting. More like 4 or 5, but still quite long stints.

I had 5 licences, 2 of which I transferred from my GT4 Prologue save. I started with the Spec C as I had the 100K transferred from my GT3 save. I was sitting with 5 pages of cars, and my Spec C fully modded as my rally car of choice, and a JGTC 350Z as my circuit car of choice. Then in a rush to do something else I powered off as it was saving. The craziest car I owned was a Suzuki something raid prototype thing. Pushing 800bhp + I think and with wings that put a 747 to shame. The only problem was that it had the worst power curve ever, even without a turbo, and wouldn't rev under 3,000, then instantly red line in all but 5th gear. Great fun though.

If you have a GT3 save you can get 100K of credits transferred. Me and GT4 aren't talking right now as I corrupted my save game on Sunday night. 10-20 hours down the tubes. I was 2 races shy of finishing the special conditions section. My white Spec C was dealing with all comers. Except in the snow. Maybe my driving style though.

If anyone's interested I have a couple of unused tickets for the 1972 European Cup final. I've done a couple on ebay for £70, but for you guys £60 inc. your postage. Genuine original unused tickets. Real collectors items. I had a few but down to my last 3 now. I have Celtic ones too, they're obviously worth a helluva lot more . Especially the '67 final. One of which I have just sold not an hour ago for £300.

I feel tremendously young now. Thanks chaps.

I've got a GPS receiver that tracks 16 satellites, has bluetooth to communite with my phone, and works quite happily whilst its sitting on my passenger seat without a direct view, and it's no biger than my mobile phone. So I'd be surpried if it was that. Although the fuzz are a bit backwards. If it's not a radar/speed detecter/camera then it's probably the arial for the digital radio. Or maybe a telly one so they can watch lunchtime neighbours in a layby.

I get about 25 on average. Without PPP. I keep saying I'll be a good boy, but I never am.

One thing that would be good was a nice flashing shift light warning. Luckily my G-tech pro RR has a flashing red shift light that works nicely when I have a it plugged in.

Even better news - I won £30 on the national. And the tic will win tomorrow.

I can't remember where I stole the deisgn for my website from, but it looks quite nice in my opinion. Other than the logo which was just a holding image. - www.st3ph3n.com. Of course, once I'd designed it, and the backend, I got completely bored and couldn't think of any content. At work there's people providing the content, or databases to yank it from, so I get to do the bit I'm the best at - coding it.

If you don't mind me asking - how much did you pay for the car andy? Mine is a Maltese import picked up from Motorpoint in Glasgow. It is a MY05 (I got it in December) and is UK spec with the excpetion of no alarm as standard, and no side airbags in the seats. If you got yours in July then I imagine it's an 04 and as such the only difference is the Alarm (as far as I'm aware). But therefore it is not "to UK spec" as far as the law would be concerned. Was cyprus in the EU when you bought the car? If so then it has the pan european warranty, but as you didn't follow the servicing intervals it's probably invalid as you say. From my personal experience, and that of a friend who also bought a WRX through motorpoint (after seeing mine he couldn't resist), the warranty and servicing book took about a month to turn up, and included was a letter from Subaru Malta, and a copy of the original sales invoice (sans the price obviously) from the country of origin. This last piece is particularly important for proving the car is eligible for the pan euoropean warranty. Which is now invalid on yours anyway. If I was in your state - Citizens advice would be my next stop, armed with as much paper work as you can get your hands on. Perhaps also deciding on a goal of what you want out of the situation. New car? Money back? For them to unf**k the situation? You've definetly been shafted, so you need something back. PCP as well. eeeeeeeep. People seem to try that once then never again.

Cal, great videos mate. The MMO looked great fun, sahme I couldn't make it. What did you use for the post production? Bit of advice, as someone who dabbles in web monkeying 5 days a week. Kill the background images and the sounds. The first thing a website needs is content, and you've got that, so just replace your front page with a nice simple layout with clear colours and text you can pick out. Think of a website with a nice design or colour scheme you like and just steal that.

Next time put "no agencies". When I tried to sell my Vectra last year I got loads of calls. One guy in particular was very persistant. I did a quick google for his company's name, and SCAM was what instantly sprung up.

Mine, installed using just the sticky foam pad that came with it. Oh, and another . That shows the bar graph, and the peak value it's stored. Amazing how fast I can go in the back garden.

An exciting mile too in the scooby. Can you not take the long way? And think of the fuel savings too.

Got one myself. A great investment it was too. I can pretty much mirror everything Gee has to say. I've had mine for a few months now, and it's most of the time set on the "elipse meter" displaying the value of the Inlet Manifold. It is very easy to setup. Plug it in (no need to take power of the cigarette lighter either), fire it up and away you go. Tell it what car manufacturer and then tweak a few settings. The comm wait setting in particular. If you have it set to the default it only updates every 3 seconds, but change it to 0 and it's instant. So it can be properly used as a gauge. All in all well worth the purchase. Although on reflection a nice set of Defis mounted where the clock is would be even more tremendous.

Well you are all welcome to join me on the "Crackpot 3333 1/3". Which is my proposed trip to the 'ring, then back via Paris or somewhere. Maybe even going as far north as Copenhagen as I have a mate who lives there, and I'm supposed to visit. All at a nice gentle pace with proper stops so I can sleep till noon. I'm not taking a week off work to drive in europe to get 4 hours sleep if I'm lucky. I can do that at home and drive the A80.

I've not been here long, so have I missed some sort of hillarious private joke. Or are most of the scottish scoobies intending on going on the actual Gumball.

Maybe he'd played too much GT4 with the traction control on. Real men drive JGTC cars with the traction control off, at the ice track.

Going north on the M73 at 8ish this morning. Cutting off at the roundabout over the A8 for Baillieston. I have to say I hated the colour when seeing it on the telly or in mags, but it looks really good up close. Very nice looking car.

Wonder how fast the eejit was driving. It looked like the corner could have been taken at that speed. Unless he was driving some sort of barge.

It's fun to stay at the YMCA. I'll get my coat.